Tag: casual games

We’re excited to introduce our latest fun game, Flip Shapes! And, we’re celebrating our launch by giving you FREE access for a limited time to this exclusive PREMIUM web game. From now through June 22nd, you can play for free. Entertain and train your visual-spatial skills. Do you have what it takes to beat the top score? Start your challenge today. We bet you’ll love it! Try Flip Shapes now.

How to Play
Can you spot the difference? Look at two shapes and determine if they are the same or mirror images. Both speed and accuracy count! Are you ready for the challenge? This game is easy to pick up but hard to put down.

What You’ll Train
This visual-spatial game helps to strengthen your ability to mentally rotate objects and observe subtle differences.

You only need 5 minutes with this game to train your brain. But, you’ll be having so much fun that you’ll want to continue playing! Try Fit Brains new game Flip Shapes today. Sign up for our FREE TRIAL or login to your account! Don’t wait, it’s only free to play through June 22nd!

We’re excited to introduce our fun New Game of the Month, Something Similar! And, we’re celebrating our launch by giving you FREE access for a limited time to this exclusive PREMIUM web game. From now through April 24, you can play for free. Delight and challenge your logic! Do you have what it takes to set the top score? Bet you’ll love it! Try Something Similar now.

Something Similar was designed to stimulate your ability to quickly switch between different kinds of information, something we do frequently. It’s a key skill required to perform well in your daily life.

Spring into action this season. Try Fit Brains new game Something Similar

game today. Sign up for our FREE TRIAL or login to your account! You’ll have fun while you

stimulate your brain! Don’t wait, Guess Who is only free to play through April 24th!

Brain games and tools at FitBrains.com stimulate and entertain the brain

VANCOUVER, Canada – Research has shown that brain health begins to lag as early as age 25. However, the same research has shown that with regular brain fitness training, the brain can create new neural connections and pathways at any age.

In response to this research, Vancouver’s Vivity Labs has created FitBrains.com, a new online brain fitness platform that hosts fun, casual games developed by brain fitness experts, specifically designed to exercise the brain and stimulate the five major cognitive brain functions – memory, concentration, language, executive functions (logic and reasoning), and visual-spatial skills.

The team behind FitBrains.com – including award-winning Neuroscientist Dr. Paul Nussbaum from the University of Pittsburgh and a board of scientific advisors – has created individual brain fitness workouts for players of all ages. More than fifteen brain games can be played for free, with daily and weekly brain fitness leader boards, a Brain Health Blog with top brain fitness tips, and a 30-day brain fitness chart for players looking to track their brain games progress and develop a competitive edge. A premium section of the site offers additional features like in-depth brain tracking charts and the ability to play against family and friends.

“FitBrains.com is designed to provide something for everyone who’s looking to stimulate their brain fitness,” Dr. Nussbaum said. “Our online brain games and tools use scientific principles to challenge the brain while providing a fun way to spend time playing casual games online.”

Michael Cole, founder and CEO of FitBrains.com, said fun and motivation were key factors in the design of FitBrains.com.

“We want to tap into as many motivational drivers that get individuals of all ages to integrate brain fitness work-outs into their daily life as we can,” Cole said. “With FitBrains.com, we provide the highest quality brain fitness gaming experience on the web. The site fuses the right balance between science and entertainment, which is critical for mass adoption. ”

For more information about how brain games can stimulate the mind, please visit www.fitbrains.com

As most of us get into middle age we might take special notice of our body’s ability to keep a few extra pounds around the waist. Most of us understand the importance of eating healthy and the disease risk associated with extra weight around the belly.

Recent research suggests the brain’s ability to sense gratification may be critical to overeating behavior. We may have a gene that assists us with knowing when we are filled after eating. Research now indicates that a brain that does not express satiation will lead to continued eating and increased risk of obesity.

We know that a healthy diet and regular exercise are very important for maintaining a healthy weight and avoiding obesity. However, genetics also plays a role in which an important neurochemical, Dopamine, may play a critical role. Dopamine is the primary neurochemical that regulates our pleasure sensation.

Eating temporarily boosts dopamine levels, but obesity may be associated with fewer Dopamine receptors which lead to less sensation of pleasure with eating. Research now suggests that the brain regions important to Dopamine expression when eating treats such as a milkshake does not get activated in those who are obese.

Interestingly, Dopamine has been studied as a primary mechanism for addiction and impulsive behavior including eating. Attempts are underway to try and understand how Dopamine might be triggered even in obesity to reduce impulsive eating so as to reduce gaining more weight. To read more about Dopamine, click here

Language is perhaps the most important cognitive function we possess after memory. An argument can even be made that it is more critical than memory because we need language first to learn or encode any new information. Regardless, there is little doubt that language serves a fundamental neurobiological and psychological need for the human being.

It is common to experience slips in language processing including word finding and name recognition as we enter our forties or fifties. This is normal and probably relates more to stress and being hurried than anything pathologic. Our vocabulary tends to remain fixed which is nice, but we have the ability to grow our library of words at any age. Our verbal fluency or speed of expressing words also slows down with advanced age, but this is not necessarily a problem and may even be of value. Our ability to read and write remains intact, though our ability to comprehend what we read may not be as efficient.

So, what are some practical mental exercises that you can do to boost up your language skills?

1. Reading everyday including the dictionary is one good way to increase your vocabulary. With an increased vocabulary other parts of language such as word finding and fluency will improve.

2. Practice reviewing the names of your friends and peers by mentally associating a name with their face. You can also engage in a fun exercise in which you place unfamiliar pictures of faces on a table, apply a written name to each and then repeat each association until you no longer need the written names to recall the correct name for each face.

3. Take any letter of the alphabet and try and state aloud as many words as you can that begin with that letter in 60 seconds. With practice you may notice that your list of words generated gets longer.

4. Write a short segment on your day’s experience in a journal. This will help your articulation and emotional skills while practicing the motor skill of writing. Some research suggests that writing with passion have been known to live a longer life.

5. Write with a focus on increased ideas per sentence as research suggests this is good for the brain.

6. Work on your public speaking as this is a wonderful exercise to stimulate the brain and engage it in a complex, but fun language exercise. Talk about what you love and your anxiety will be reduced. Most let the anxiety prevent them from trying!

7. Crossword puzzles are fine as they promote reading and vocabulary. The same is true for word search games.

8. Name objects that you see on your way to work or the store. Object naming is a good mental exercise.

9. Work on the art of story telling.

10. FitBrains.com offers some good mental exercises for language. These include